skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what about reports out of michigan that audit trails / logs were missing for election night?

https://www.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/antrim_m...
It would be nice if there were some sort of advanced features, like downvoting or flagging, which could only be maintained by users who upvote at least dozen links off of the new page per week.

I’d suggest keeping the karma threshold required to earn these privileges, but just require a little bit of ongoing service to maintain them. No penalty if you are take a break from HN for a while; just spend a couple minutes voting on new and your advanced abilities will return.
I'm talking about people choosing not to wear masks, that's all. Wearing a mask hurts nobody, and it probably helps your neighbors.

(incidentally, social cohesion is what makes draconian lockdowns less justifiable. If everyone chooses to social distance and wear a mask when asked to by competent public health bodies, you can go a long way toward getting a handle on this thing. It's only when social cohesion is at a low ebb that the political drive for enforcing it with police powers kicks in)
Note: This is being pushed by the major telecom company in the EU

> The Continent's "big four" telcos Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange on Wednesday published a joint "memorandum of understanding" pledging to prioritize the development of "Open RAN" technology

They want to have more interoperabilities between equipment and more supplier basically :

> Open RAN encompasses the idea of chopping up the 5G supply chain into smaller pieces and imposing standards on equipment and software firms so their products can work together

This makes a lot of sense for telco since it would drastically lower the cost of their deployment and the maintenance of the 5G network.

Right now, if you take your equipments from one supplier, you are basically locked-in with this supplier since they are not compatible with each-other. So if one equipment fail, you need to buy a replacement from the same supplier.
Dominion voting machines use human-readable printed ballots as a backup auditing mechanism. In all of the disputed states these paper ballots were hand counted (sometimes multiple times) and the original electronically reported results were confirmed.

So how are these voting machines complete bullshit exactly? What do you think the mechanism of attack is, and do you have any sources other than just your speculation?
I file that film firmly under Not Safe For Anywhere!
What is your source for this rate? Based on limited knowledge (e.g., the Finnish YouTuber who tried working as Wolt courier for a couple of days, and the recent articles about the courier who is trying to earn 8000e in January delivering with Wolt), it seems that the rate _when actually making deliveries_ is higher. I might be willing to accept that this quoted figure is the hourly rate when the courier is technically available for deliveries but not getting them all the time. So, the hourly rate would go up if more people made delivery orders, because there would be less downtime… Of course nothing prevents the self-employed couriers from doing other work in the meantime, e.g., delivering for another company or working on some personal project (studying comes to mind as a thing that can be done during downtime).

Now, admittedly if they were employees, they would be paid by the hour whether there were orders or not, but then both their salary and the number of couriers on duty would have to be adjusted accordingly, which means the majority of couriers would lose this job… Not a simple matter, IMO, I think there is a gap in legislation when it comes to this type of work.
In the past it was because we had 400k+ coal miners who were very well organised, so any attempt to touch the coal industry resulted in protests and literal tire fires in Warsaw.

That number went down to 80k by 2020, but they still vote in concert, so any governing party has to tread lightly.

Nowadays it's just that there's a lot of old infrastructure - both power plants and residential heating and noone wants to step up and replace it, because that would mean additional costs - we're a stingy folk.

As a result the coal industry is currently being subsidised to the tune of 9bln PLN (€2bln) annually.

As for air quality: during the winter it's just awful - mostly because of homeowners who burn coal dust and garbage for heating.

I live in Wrocław and bought an air purifier in September, but already had to replace the HEPA filter that was supposed to last a year, because a week of PM2.5 over 200ug/m3 was enough to clog it entirely.
How do I feel worthwhile as a manager?
Institutional hedge funds got greedy and they're getting punched in the gut by retail investors; personally i think it's nice to see.

A few comments on the price action:

1) true short interest is unclear; remaining short-sellers will likely be forced to "buy to cover" over the next few days, potentially driving the price even higher.

2) WSB users invested heavily in call options; "exercising a call" option can also drive price action higher if they were sold a "naked call".
> integrating your API documentation into the rest of your website/docs is definitely something that I have on the radar

I think that Sphinx and mkdocs are the two most popular docs systems for Python, and Sphinx can build its own API docs, so a closer integration into mkdocs might be worth looking into. Mkdocs has a plugin system now that you can hook in to

[0]: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/plugins/
And still, after years and years and years people do not have backups, especially if they have their data in the cloud. From my experience the number of backups people make went down not up.

If my comment helped one iota to make backups more likely next time, I did good.
Did Dominion create, for example, FMEA analyses during their software development efforts?

Such analyses are de rigueur in the development of software in regulated industries (medical devices, aviation, etc.)

Should the development of election systems software be regulated?
"However, there is a route on dev that can show email content to CMs and they use this to obtain the magic link used to reset credentials."

Zawinski's Law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
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Exactly, that is the alternative system which was the default. It has gone through a number of cycles in history and is not always thought of the same way across different cultures (which is why there is a whole book on the topic).

But it is a recurring theme in history, and most (all?) monetary systems were traded for this alternative within 1000 years. For me, in Western Europe, this was 500 years ago between roughly 1000-1500. The churches were fitted with gold roofs, and because of the lack of coinage and currency, most people lived their lives with this alternative approach, only rarely coming across money, currency, accounting and debt.
Voter machines being unreliable has seemed to be the prevailing opinion in hacker news and similar circles until now. Are they suddenly all okay because Giuliani has spread bs about them?
I’d say the majority of people aren’t being challenged enough at work, especially in the tech sector.

Busy with things, yes, but given opportunities for growth through learning in the job? Not so much.
The code can be unsafe because it is physically impossible to test for every input in a computer. This is where various engineering designs come in which reduce the area of testing based on some theories.

Also, even in math, there are enough mistakes in publications (not just typos, but reasoning errors) which hopefully do not affect the eventual results in any fundamental way. The equivalent of safe code in computer science would be equivalent of completely formal proofs in mathematics (like in Coq and similar languages), but probably much more difficult due to existence of temporal conditions.
Race conditions are in the nature of concurrent code. Not just parallel code.

Take go, use gomaxprocs and set it to 1. Spawn a bunch of goroutines that share memory. And easily you'll have race conditions if you're not careful.
I put my static sites on free tier netlify. Super easy.
The visual cortex part is what current deep learning stuff handles pretty well. What's not so obvious is how to generate a model that can manage the "usual problems" (unclear road signs, debris on road, pedestrians/cyclists, harm minimization in accidents) without "freaking out" (phantom braking).

For example if the car in front did not even slow down while going through some obstacle (the proverbial plastic bag), then it's very likely that we don't have to either. But if something looks like a drunk guy trying to cross the highway, then it's caution time.

That said, without the actual data/studies/access on what Tesla does and how, it's hard to say how good they are at this. (Sure, in theory everything needed to drive a car well can be inferred from regular human vision visuals. But that means their model has to be able to do counterfactual reasoning - I see this thing as a wall, but other cars go through it, so it's not a wall, so maybe it's a marking. Otherwise it'll very hard to just figure out things frame-by-frame and simply by raw object detection.)
The original Diebold machines, at least, were purely electronic; they did not leave an auditable paper trail like the Dominion machines do. So we've fortunately learned a lot in the intervening decades and have fixed the glaring security flaws.
No it isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
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Doesn't reconstruction like this rely on the decoding mechanism being trained on the original images? This doesn't scale to reconstructing any visual image, only to differentiating between those the decoder has already seen.

It doubt very much that it reconstructs from the visual cortext. That is a non-trivial task with fMRI which has a much higher SNR than EEG.
It's too bad that you're using a brand new account and there's no evidence of you holding this position before 2017.
Well, in some cases, much of the life on earth went extinct. It's also not clear how long it took to make earth a good place to live again. The planet's ecology might be able to "heal" the damage we're doing, but it's probabably more on the scale of centuries or millenia, than decades.
The good news is election security researchers mostly agree with you.

The prevailing opinion of election security professionals is that State election systems should be designed assuming the machines are insecure and the process should be tolerant to that fault.

That's why many states that use electronic voting or tabulation produce a voter verifiable paper trail. That means, when you're done voting the machine gives the voter a piece of paper that has their votes on it. The voter can check the paper to ensure it matches their votes, then deposits the paper record like a ballot.

State's can then use Risk Limiting Audits to verify a necessary amount of randomly sampled ballots to ensure that the electronic count matches the voter verifiable paper ballots.

So, if your concern is that the GA election was overturned by electronic tampering you would need to explain why the voter verifiable paper trail extremely closely matched the electronic tabulation.

This is a long-winded way of saying I agree with you. There are some states that use electronic voting or tabulation without a voter-verifiable paper trail and risk limiting audits. Fortunately, none of those states were "disputed" in this election. But those states should absolutely switch to these kinds of systems.
I get a sense that these threads are getting worked over with automation.
Presumably, the issue is baseless accusations in general. It doesn't matter what side a baseless claim happens: its bad either way.

Dominion Voting Systems must prove that Rudy Giuliani was making up information to succeed in this court case. Unfortunately, defamation is surprisingly hard to win in the USA (which is why the US's Tabloid media can get so far with so many claims).

Dominion Voting Systems is not a public figure however, its a company. That... probably makes it easier to win this case.

Still, if Dominion's lawyers think that this case is worth pursuing (despite the difficulty of defamation / libel / slander), that doesn't bode well for Rudy.
Dissent when it’s politically convenient, is just dissent.
It's their right to defend their reputation. If there is any proof against them let those come to light and if the machines are indeed not good let the company go belly up. But what if the allegations are lies? Shouldn't the originators of those lies take responsibility?
Looks like it came out Feb last year[0], so it has been out for awhile. I just learned about it recently.

[0] https://anonaddy.com/blog/sending-email-from-an-alias-and-up...
I love that idea. I'm working on a HN clone in Prolog and will totally implement that. But, I think you could also make something like that for HN as a Firefox extension. Or perhaps write a simple web app that provides a RSS feed of popular and new interwoven.
Worse, depending on state it may be statewide, or county by county.
Firefox is a bit like Google. They roll these out and then a year later they kill them. Looking at you Firefox send. So I'll pass.
Finished Range and Siddhartha, and now reading Seneca's letters from a stoic.

Range is a great book that extols the virtues of playing around and dabbling with multiple skills. Immensely readable.

Siddhartha, is a fascinating take on advaita vedanta, Sramana, and Buddhism. As someone familiar with these 3 philosophies, I liked Hesse's take on them. The story is really simple and can be finished in 2-3 sittings.

Letters from a stoic is full to the brim of wisdom and I've never filled a book with so many bookmarks and notes before. Seneca writes like a straight arrow and doesn't mince words. No wonder the book is still around, one of the best examples of Lindy effect.
War might be one of the consequences of climate change. India and Pakistan both depend heavily on Himalayan glaciers for their fresh water (as do several other countries). Those glaciers are rapidly shrinking due to climate change.

It is not implausible that this could lead to war over control of the dwindling fresh glacial water. And they both have nukes. They don't have the really big nukes that the big nuclear powers have, but it doesn't take big nukes to cause a worldwide catastrophe.

This paper [1] (article about that paper here [2]) looks at the effect of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India with an exchange of 100 Hiroshima-size nukes between them (about 1/3 of their total arsenals) directed at their 100 most populated areas.

The nukes are of course devastating to those in the area they hit, but it is the firestorms that follow that are bad for the rest of the world. Based on the amount of combustible material in those regions, the paper estimates about 1.5 Tg of soot aerosol would end up in the upper atmosphere.

They used climate models to analyze that, and come up with a 1.8 C temperature reduction and 8% precipitation reduction for several years. They then used state of the art crop models to estimate the effect that would have on food crops. They found that the strongest effects would be in temperate regions of the US, Europe, and China for 10-15 years.

It would not be a collapse of civilization type event, but it would result in a decade or more of serious food shortages worldwide which would probably kill a lot of people. And since it would not just be hitting the poor, undeveloped countries like the usual famines do nowadays, it could trigger more wars involving the countries that do have the large arsenals of much much bigger nukes than India and Pakistan have.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/7071

[2] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-india-...
1. Noise that looks like valid signal is the most difficult kind to remove.

2. They would have to track the noise over page requests to know that it was noise. The saving of and correlation of the saved state would be a pain.
Maybe you have a real opportunity here to offer consultation services to Giuliani. Seriously!
This seems like an unreasonable assessment. The preprint is available (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.427948v1), submitted for peer review, and the article is pretty clear from the start that this is a preliminary finding.
I do the catchall thing too, but Migadu has an API for creating aliases... I think it'd be pretty cool to create a little script to generate random aliases and keep track of them.
for one, editorializing by using an emotionally-charged term like "massively", which indicates bias, and incidentally lowers trust.

in any case, it's not ethnic diversity that impacts social trust but (sub-)cultural friction, which can happen between subsets ('tribes") of the same ethnicity (which is mostly a superfluous distinction anyway). tabs vs spaces, for instance.

we like to imagine mountains out of molehills and then point to our mounded constructions to prove how we're so irreconcileably different, but it's often a thin veil over an insecure assertion of authority and superiority.
Gatsby is the hot one for react. Jekyll is the granddaddy and probably has the most broad support. Gridsome for vue is good too.
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Modern machines differ from old ones is a very significant way: they give you a paper ballot that you - the voter - can verify before submitting.
I worked on campaigns for 10 years, I was an elected Hillary Rodham Clinton DNC Delegate and I witnessed real problems that should be of concern of every American.

Votes should be cast in person, with identification and counted by hand.

If Democracy is sacred we can wait a few days for results we can all trust. The system is clearly breaking down today where 75% of Republicans do not trust the election results and 75% of Democrats didn't trust the 2016 election.
> A significant period of time is spent investigating TeamCity—the attacker is clearly not overly familiar with the product so they spend time looking up Q&A on Stack Overflow on how to use and configure it. This act of looking up things (visiting questions) across the Stack Exchange Network becomes a frequent occurrence and allows us to anticipate and understand the attacker’s methodology over the coming days.

Awesome writeup - this gave me a good laugh :-)
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The headline is slightly misleading if only because it's so vague, which is why this is out today:

"Moderna says it’s working on Covid booster shot for variant in South Africa, says current vaccine provides some protection"

"The company’s researchers said its current coronavirus vaccine appears to work against the two highly transmissible strains found in the U.K. and South Africa, although it looks like it may be less effective against the latter."

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/covid-vaccine-moderna-workin...
In a real world use case you are going to have multiple instances of your application running at the same time anyways, so the mutex solution is pointless. Use a DB transaction or something.
My understanding is that newer systems now let you vote at a machine, but it spits out a receipt that the county can hold on to for the sake of audits and recounts.

Not new. I've had paper voting receipts for at least 15 years. Probably longer.

Is this standard now, or on a state by state basis?

There are no voting machine standards. It varies by state, and in some states by county.

Some people see that as a flaw. I see the diversity of voting systems as a security plus. There was even an article in the newspaper shortly after the election stating that certain foreign governments looked into hacking America's voting systems, but it wasn't worth the effort because they were all constructed and implemented differently.
Programming is a craft. In the same way the pentagon and white house have structural proofs against certain kinds of attacks, programs have certain kinds of defences against certain kinds of attacks.

Defences are necessary when the program interacts with users or external inputs of any form. This can be inputs in the form of text or files, or even by interfacing with a program, e.g. the malicious code executes system code in a specific manner to cause certain side effects.
If you can (non-violently) convince everyone on earth to suffer massive setbacks in health and material comforts, then by all means go ahead. In the meantime, something that has a chance of actually happening should be pursued, even if it isn't "simple" by some arbitrary measure.
Curious to hear what current California residents think about this video. My suspicion is many will view it as dramatically overblown.

Another question for residents of CA:

As a resident of Colorado, I've been very happy with my governor (Jared Polis) and his decisions with the pandemic. He was early to implement a mask mandate, and has been super collaborative with businesses in soliciting ideas to best walk a middle ground between allowing businesses to remain open and also containing the virus and ensuring businesses aren't acting as vectors of spread.

How do you rate your governor's handling of it? Legitimately curious. (I really don't care about the optics, like "so and so went to this fancy restaurant", just more of a resident's viewpoint on whether the state government is being smart or not.)
(NB. The intersection of programming language design and psychology is something I find incredibly interesting, so if you disagree with the my parent comment, can see glaring flaws in it, or have otherwise constructive criticism, I would very much like to know.)
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I mean why do you use voting machines anyway? Manual voting is perfectly adequate and much more transparent and understandable.

If this leads to voting machines being pulled then at least something good came out of it?
OP here, I'm glad you liked it! I definitely discovered a lot of interesting people blogging while sourcing the data. Hope you find something cool inside :)
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What Giuliani was doing wasn't dissent, it wasn't a difference of opinion or anything remotely similar. It was straight up lying. Yes, defamation should be chilled.
It'll be a win/win situation if baseless allegations of fraud are punished, and every detail of how voting machines work, including source code, are made public.
Except software does control airplanes and elevators..

Subscribing to this kind of "digital bad" dogma is lazy because you don't have to think for yourself.
I finally switched to iPhone after my perfectly functional Pixel XL was effectively made useless by Google discontinuing security updates. Perhaps I could have flashed a custom ROM on the Pixel, but I want a device that works with minimal fuss (I'd rather tinker on other things).
> I've been extremely concerned with the efforts of sub-groups in our societies attacking the foundations of trust.

I assume you're referring to the neocons who lied us into the war in Iraq (and keep us there to this day), the Wall Street bankers & executives who created the 2008 financial crisis and the politicians who bailed them out at the people's expense, the military/intelligence and tech industry figures who set up a vast domestic mass spying infrastructure and then hounded the people who leaked it into hiding or prison, and the media apparatus which has run cover for all these sorts of things, right?

To me it often looks like a lot of what is described as "attacking trust" is actually just pointing out that it's already been worn down to a nub. We wouldn't have to deal with the emperor being naked if those darn troublemakers would just stop pointing out he's not wearing any clothes.